China News Service, Taiyuan, January 11 (Liu Xiaohong) The reporter learned from the Shanxi Provincial People's Procuratorate on the 11th that the Taiyuan City People's Procuratorate recently approved the arrest of the suspect in the city's first "self-laundering" case.
In March 2021, the criminal suspect Wu Mou joined a hotel. In order to facilitate his work, Yue Moumou, the person in charge of the hotel, provided Wu Mou with a mobile phone and informed the crime of the WeChat payment (binding credit card) password in the mobile phone. Suspect Wu.
During July 2021, the criminal suspect Wu stole the credit card of Yue Moumou's bank through the online cash-out platform without authorization, and the other party transferred the cashed-out funds of more than 30,000 yuan to the criminal suspect Wu Mou.
The investigation authority of the case submitted to the Taiyuan City Procuratorate for approval of arrest on the basis that the criminal suspect Wu Mou was suspected of credit card fraud.
During the review process, the procuratorate found that the above-mentioned behavior of the criminal suspect Wu constituted the crime of credit card fraud, but he was also suspected of money laundering by cashing out and transferring stolen funds after committing credit card fraud.
In this regard, the undertaking prosecutors combed the case evidence thoroughly and meticulously. The undertaking department convened a joint meeting of prosecutors for collective research and discussion, communicated with the investigative authorities many times, and solicited the opinions of the Anti-Money Laundering Center of the Taiyuan Central Sub-branch of the People's Bank of China. A supplementary investigation outline to fix and strengthen evidence related to money laundering crimes is proposed.
After synthesizing the opinions of various parties and studying carefully, the Taiyuan People's Procuratorate believes that the criminal suspect Wu used another person's credit card to defraud property, the amount was relatively large, and his behavior constituted the crime of credit card fraud; Personal accounts, according to the provisions of the Criminal Law Amendment (11), which will be implemented on March 1, 2021, constitute the crime of "self-money laundering".
The Taiyuan People's Procuratorate approved the arrest of the criminal suspect Wu for the crime of credit card fraud and money laundering.
This case is the first "self-money laundering" criminal case handled by Taiyuan City after the implementation of the "Criminal Law Amendment (11)". The case has guiding significance for the identification and grasp of money laundering crimes.
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